Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to embody
Participle: embodied
Gerund: embodying
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | embody |
| you | embody |
| he;she;it | embodies |
| we | embody |
| you | embody |
| they | embody |
Perfect
| I | have embodied |
| you | have embodied |
| he;she;it | has embodied |
| we | have embodied |
| you | have embodied |
| they | have embodied |
Past
| I | embodied |
| you | embodied |
| he;she;it | embodied |
| we | embodied |
| you | embodied |
| they | embodied |
Pluperfect
| I | had embodied |
| you | had embodied |
| he;she;it | had embodied |
| we | had embodied |
| you | had embodied |
| they | had embodied |
Future
| I | will embody |
| you | will embody |
| he;she;it | will embody |
| we | will embody |
| you | will embody |
| they | will embody |
Future Perfect
| I | will have embodied |
| you | will have embodied |
| he;she;it | will have embodied |
| we | will have embodied |
| you | will have embodied |
| they | will have embodied |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | embody |
| you | embody |
| he;she;it | embody |
| we | embody |
| you | embody |
| they | embody |
Perfect
| I | have embodied |
| you | have embodied |
| he;she;it | have embodied |
| we | have embodied |
| you | have embodied |
| they | have embodied |
Imperfect
| I | embodied |
| you | embodied |
| he;she;it | embodied |
| we | embodied |
| you | embodied |
| they | embodied |
Pluperfect
| I | had embodied |
| you | had embodied |
| he;she;it | had embodied |
| we | had embodied |
| you | had embodied |
| they | had embodied |
Conditional
Present
| I | would embody |
| you | would embody |
| he;she;it | would embody |
| we | would embody |
| you | would embody |
| they | would embody |
Perfect
| I | would have embodied |
| you | would have embodied |
| he;she;it | would have embodied |
| we | would have embodied |
| you | would have embodied |
| they | would have embodied |
Imperative
| you | embody |
| we | Let's embody |
| you | embody |
Verbs conjugated like 'embody'
accompany,
acetify,
acidify,
adsignify,
affy,
alacrify,
alkalify,
ally,
amnesty,
amplify,
angelify,
anglicify,
anglify,
apology,
apply,
arefy,
argufy,
astony,
atrophy,
avowtry, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'embody'
imbody,
body,
embay,
embed,
embog,
emboil,
embosk,
emboss,
embow,
embowl,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- unite in a body or mass
- coalesce
- to join into a single mass or whole
- agglomerate, aggregate, amalgamate, blend, coalesce, conflate, fuse, integrate, mass, meld, merge, unite
- manifest
- exteriorize, actualize, externalize, incarnate, materialize, objectify, personalize, personify
- organize
- combine, include, establish, incorporate, integrate
Antonyms
- manifest
- hidden, concealed, covered, disguised
- organize
- disorganize, disorder, disband, divide
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
3. Proto-Italic *en
4. Proto-Italic *en-
5. Latin in-
6. Old French en-bor.
7. Middle English en-
8. English en-
9. English em-
10. Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ-
11. Proto-West Germanic *bodag
12. Old English bodiġ
13. Middle English bodi
14. English body
15. English embody
16. From em- + body.
Sample Sentences
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As the car salesman approached, wearing a plaid suit and slicked-back hair, he seemed to embody sleaze.
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The soul, while it is embodied, can no more be divided from sin. [1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:]
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Francesca shook her head as she answered, "Ah! expectations are such unreasonable things! It was impossible for even France to realise the dreams of youth and solitude! What ever embodies our idea of perfection?" [1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter V, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 48:]
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The generational shift Mr. Obama once embodied is, in fact, well under way, but it will not change Washington as quickly — or as harmoniously — as a lot of voters once hoped. [2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, in New York Times:]
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The US Constitution aimed to embody the ideals of diverse groups of people, from Puritans to Deists.
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The principle was recognized by some of the early Greek philosophers who embodied it in their systems.
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Given these entrenched ideological assumptions about the colonial order, it is no wonder that the state and those groups with an interest in the status quo viewed with suspicion and hostility any challenges to the fixed and "natural" boundaries between different sorts of people. These attitudes were perhaps best embodied by the so-called Two Republic system of Spanish America, a sprawling collection of royal legislation, local administrative policies, and informal practices, through which Spanish colonizers attempted to separate native peoples from other colonial subjects. [2009, Andrew B. Fisher, Matthew O'Hara, “Forward”, in Andrew B. Fisher, Matthew O'Hara, editors, Imperial Subjects: Race and Identity in Colonial Latin America, page 4:]
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A shunting locomotive embodying an unusual form of power transmission has been developed for the National Coal Board. [1958 June 26, “N.C.B. Electrogyro Locomotive”, in Railway Magazine, page 421:]
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With the exception of the Great Eastern Line, these embody the most complete systematisation of steam or diesel-operated main line services that has yet taken place in the country. [1961 October, “The winter timetables of British Railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 590:]
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For use in a nursery for cradling a baby to sleep, a baby cradler comprising, in combination, a stand embodying a mobile base, uprights attached to and rising perpendicularly from the base and having axially aligned bearings, [...] [1962, Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, page 1261:]
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Nay, my good friend—the people will remain / Embodied peaceably, till Parliament / Confirm the royal charter: tell your king so: / We will await the Charter's confirmation, / Meanwhile comporting ourselves orderly / As peaceful citizens, not risen in tumult, / But to redress their evils. [1794, Robert Southey, Wat Tyler. A Dramatic Poem. In Three Acts, London: J[ohn] M‘Creery, […] for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, […], published 1817, →OCLC, Act III, pages 55–56:]
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So when inclement winters vex the plain / With piercing frosts, or thick-descending rain, / To warmer seas the cranes embodied fly, / With noise, and order, through the midway sky; [1715, Homer, Iliad, translated by Alexander Pope, Book III:]
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Threads of silk and cotton are so arranged in parallel lines, lengthways with the note, and embodied in the substance of the paper during its manufacture. [1847, editorial staff, “Method of Preserving the Denominations of a Bank Bill from being Altered”, in Scientific American, series 1, Volume 3, Issue 9, page 68:]